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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Mao Zedong, Hu Shih, Chen Duxiu, Lu Xun, Qian Xuantong, Fei Xiaotong, Lin Yutang, Te-Pei Feng, Gang Tian, Justin Yifu Lin, Jeffrey S. Lehman, Wang Keqin, Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet, Ky Fan, Cai Yuanpei, Hu Ning, Wu Wenjun, Gu Hongming, Li Dazhao, M. T. Cheng, Hu Haichang, Ta-You Wu, Chen Daqi, Zhu Qianzhi, Ho Ping-sung, Han Qide, Hu Jimin, Shen Congwen, Chien Shih-Liang, Wang Tieya, Li Haopei, Yang Guanghua, He Xie-hou, Shiyi Chen, Hu Zhuangyou, Yi Gang, C. S. Kiang, Sun Dongdong, Wang Xiaobo, Zhang Weiyin, He Weifang, Luo Changpei, Jin Kemu, Dai Jinhua, Aftab Iqbal Shamim. Excerpt: Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung .), and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao (December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976), was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerilla warfare strategist, political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution. He was the architect and founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949, and held authoritarian control over the nation until his death in 1976. His theoretical contribution to Marxism-Leninism, along with his military strategies and brand of policies, are collectively known as Maoism. Mao rose to power by commanding the Long March, forming a Second United Front with Nationalists during the Second Sino-Japanese War to defeat regional warlords and repel a Japanese invasion, and leading the Communist Party of China (CPC) to victory against Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War. After solidifying the reunification of China through his Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries, Mao enacted sweeping land reform, by using violence and terror to overthrow the feudal landlords before seizing their large estates and dividing the land into people's communes. During the years when Mao was China's 'Great Helmsman', a rang...
